Chaim Weizmann was Russia born Jew,
and later he spent several years in Switzerland. In 1904 he settled in England, at the age of thirty,
where he lectured in the University of Manchester chemistry department. During WW I,
he was credited with developing a method of producing acetone from maize; which was needed for the production of artillery
shells, and in 1917 he was credited with securing
a promise from the British to build a "Jewish National Home" in
Palestine, (better known as the Balfour
Declaration).

Weizmann was one of the three
Zionist leaders (along with Theodor Herzl
and David Ben-Gurion) most responsible for turning Zionism into
reality.
Soon after Theodor Herzl's
death in 1904 (the father of Zionism), Weizmann was becoming a prominent figure in the Zionist movement, having acquired
a reputation as a powerful public
speaker, until the mid-1930s. As the Zionist movement center of gravity shifted from Europe to
Palestine in the late 1930s-early 1940s, Weizmann played a secondary role behind
David Ben-Gurion, who led the movement until 1962. Soon after the conclusion of the 1948, and the
establishment of the "Jewish state" he became first Israeli President.

Weizmann was a very patient and savvy politician, who knew how to patiently
lobby for Zionism in Europe, specially among the British whom he knew very well
how to charm and court. He is credited with clarifying Herzl's vision of Zionism
in the West and many Western Jewish communities. Weizmann's style of management was almost the exact opposite of
Ben-Gurion's, who became militant, rigid, and uncompromising after the Nazis
rose to power in Germany. As evidence of the Nazi atrocities was surfacing,
Zionists and Jews in general advocated the creation of a "Jewish
state" as soon as WWII ended, and the slogan "never again" became
their motto. All of these factors pushed Weizmann to the background, and
the Israeli Hawks dominated the Israeli political spectrum to the present day.
It should be noted that Moshe
Sharett was marginalized in a similar fashion as well.

Famous Quotes

In 1914, Chaim Weizmann attempted to lay down the foundations of realizing
Zionism, and began by asserting that Palestine was empty and that its current
inhabitants have no say in its fate. He stated:

"In its initial stage, Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement
wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be
called Palestine, a country without people, and, on the other hand, there exists
the Jewish people, and it has no country. What else is necessary, then, than to
fit the gem into the ring, to unite this people with this country? The owners of
the country [the Ottoman Turks] must, there for, be persuaded and conceived that
this marriage is advantageous, not only for the [Jewish] people and for the
country, but also for themselves." (Expulsion Of The
Palestinians, p. 6)

Note how Weizmann didn't claim that the country was empty (see the quote below), but he denied that there
was a people which deserved the right
of self-determination. The selective definition of "who are a people, and
who are not" was crafted to
serve Zionists' agenda for the following reasons:

To lure European Jewry to immigrate to Palestine,

To secure international legitimacy for the emerging "Jewish
state", and

To deceive the Yishuv, the Jews who were residing in Palestine before
1948, into believing that they were robbing no other people's rights.

Repeatedly, Zionists argued that Palestinians could be
"transferred" to neighboring Arab states without infringing their right, and such "transfer" would be beneficial to both communities. Click
here if you wish to read our response to this argument.

Just prior to the British conquest of Palestine, Chaim Weizmann
wrote describing
the Palestinian people as:

Note how Weizmann referred to the Palestinian people, as rocks. Usually
Zionists use similar dehumanizing language to refer to the Palestinian people,
such as rocks, primitive, naive, ignorant, savage, demographic problem, ticking
time bombs, question, 5th column, obstacles, "transfer
solution", " should be cleared", "should be broomed",
etc.

Zionist leaders stressed the strategic advantages to Britain of a "Jewish
state" in Palestine. In a letter written in 1914 to a sympathizer, Chaim Weizmann
said:

"... should Palestine fall within the British sphere of influence, and should Britain encourage a Jewish settlement there, as a British dependency, we could have in 20 to 30 years a million Jews out there - perhaps more; they would ... form a very effective guard for the Suez Canal."
(UN: The
Origins And Evolution Of Palestine Problem, section II)

Another
Weizmann letter of 1916 reads:

"... The British Cabinet is not only sympathetic toward the Palestinian aspirations of the Jews, but would like to see these aspirations realized ...

England ... would have in the Jews the best possible friends, who would be the best national interpreters of ideas in the eastern countries and would serve as a bridge between the two civilizations. That again is not a material argument, but certainly it ought to carry great weight with any politician who likes to look 50 years ahead."
(UN: The
Origins And Evolution Of Palestine Problem, section II)

Ironically, the disadvantages of establishing a "Jewish state" are never discussed. For example,

What if Arabs and Muslims perceive the creation of a "Jewish
state" as the 2nd Crusade? What is the impact of this perception on
America's and England's national interests?

What if England's and America's national interests run contrary to the
"Jewish state's" national interests? Would Israel point its bayonets
against the American and British peoples? It should be noted that Zionist bayonets
in Palestine were pointed toward the British (who practically created the
"Jewish state") during WWII until May 1948.

Soon after the arrival of Weizmann to Jerusalem in late 1918, he described
the ultra-orthodox neighborhoods of the city to his wife as follows:

"There's nothing more humiliating than 'our'
Jerusalem. Anything that could be done to desecrate and defile the sacred has
been done. It is impossible to imagine so much falsehood, blasphemy,
greed, so many lies. It's such an accursed city, there's nothing there, no
creature comforts. . . [It] hasn't a single clean and comfortable
apartment." (One
Palestine Complete, p. 71)

In 1918 Chaim Weizmann
denied the existence of an Arab nation in Palestine and
portrayed them as ignorant and naive. He described Palestinians in a letter to a colleague of his:

"The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about
politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has
confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by
us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what
he is told." (One
Palestine Complete, p. 109)

While the peace conference was convening at Versailles in early 1919,
Weizmann was asked of his understanding of the "national home"
referred to by Balfour
Declaration, he answered:

"the country [Palestine] should be Jewish in the same way that France
is French and Britain is British." (One
Palestine Complete, p. 117)

Similarly, Weizmann pronounced the same formula in an address to the
English Zionist Federation on September 19, 1919:

"By a Jewish National Home I mean the creation of such conditions that
as the country is developed we can pour in a considerable number of
immigrants, and finally establish such a society in Palestine that Palestine
shall be as Jewish as England is English or America American." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians,
p. 41)

Even in the early 1920s, the Zionists goals were not popular among many
Jewish comminutes around the world. However, the Zionist Organization, with Weizmann's leadership, was a able to erect a powerful lobbying facade in
England and the United States as if they were speaking on behalf of all Jews,
and in that regard Chaim Weizmann stated:

"The Balfour Declaration
of 1917 was built on air ... every day and every hour of these last 10 years, when opening the newspapers, I thought:
Whence will the next blow come? I trembled lest the British Government would call me and ask: 'Tell us, what is this Zionist Organization?
Where are they, your Zionists?' ... The Jews, they knew, were against us [the
Zionists]; we stood alone on a little island, a tiny group of Jews with a foreign past."
(UN: The
Origins And Evolution Of Palestine Problem, section V)

On the other hand, the holocaust propelled the Zionist Organization, the
Jewish Agency, and later the "Jewish state" to become the
representative of Jewish interests among most Jews, especially in the United
States. For example, the Jewish Agency and the "Jewish state" took
the leading role in securing compensation for German atrocities and for Swiss'
looting of Jewish artwork.

In the early 1920s, Ben-Gurion asked Chaim Weizmann why he had accepted the
promise of a "national home" in Palestine (as referred to by Balfour
Declaration) rather than holding out for a state, Weizmann responded the he
did not demand a state because he would not have gotten one. For him the choice
of "national home" was a "tactical question". Weizmann
believed in cautious, gradual action, in a doctrine of stages. (One
Palestine Complete, p. 101)

Weizmann argued for increased Jewish immigration to Palestine because they
were unwanted all over the world. He stated in 1930:

"while they [European Jews] are seeking an outlet, every door of those
countries into which the Jews emigrated in the past is gradually being closed
before them: America, South Africa, Canada, Mexico, each used to be a country of
immigration; they are closed now." (Israel:
A History, p. 65)

Similarly, at the annual dinner of the Anglo-American Palestine Committee,
Weizmann declared that Palestine must be the only place for settlement for
Jewish refugees. He stated on May 25, 1942,:

"Palestine alone could absorb and provide for the homeless and the
stateless Jews uprooted by the war. It is canalized all the sympathy of the
world for the martyrdom of the Jews that the Zionists reject all schemes to
resettle these victims elsewhere-- in Germany, or Poland, or in sparsely
populated regions such as Madagascar." It was Hitler who, in 1940, had
first suggested Madagascar as a place where all the Jews of Europe might be
sent, before the policy turned to physical extermination. (Israel:
A History, p. 113)

It's not only that this was lie, it was also criminal against Jews since
Zionists' main objective was to channel all fleeing European Jewish citizen to
Palestine. This was was done for one and only one purpose: to turn Palestinian into
a Jewish state where Jews would constitute a majority. Ben-Gurion
stated similar statements in 1938.

By no mean we imply that Zionists did not care about European Jewish
citizens, however, achieving Zionists' main goal was paramount, and securing a
Jewish majority in Palestine, as Moshe Sharett called it in 1948, was the
"crowing achievement". As a result, Zionists' main objective had
blinded them from protecting their European Jewish brothers. This serious and
divisive question is silently being debated in many Jewish communities around
the world.

Chaim Weizmann attempted on more than one occasion to extend Zionist
colonization outside the borders of British Mandated Palestine. For example, in
1934 Weizmann tried to interest the French Mandate authorities in his settlement
plans in Syria and Lebanon. This plan was originally submitted by the World
Zionist Organization in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 which included
Western Jordan, Southern Syria including the Golan Heights, and Southern
Lebanon south of the Litani River, click
here for a map illustration. Similar ideas were also proposed by Ben-Gurion
and Moshe Dayan. (Expulsion Of The Palestinians,
p. 47)

In a letter Chaim Weizmann sent to the Palestine-British high Commissioner
while the Peel Commission was convening
in 1937:

"We shall spread in the whole country in the course of time .....
this is only an arrangement for the next 25 to 30 years."(Expulsion
Of The Palestinians, p. 62)

Chaim Weizmann wrote in a letter dated April 28, 1939 to the American Zionist
leader Solomon Goldman about the possibility of acquisition of a large tract of
land belonging to the Palestinian Arab Druze in the Galilee and eastern Carmel:

"The realization of this project would mean the emigration of 10,000
[Palestinian] Arabs [to Jabal al-Druze in Syria], the acquisition of 300,000
dunums. . . . It would also create a significant precedent if 10,000
[Palestinian] Arabs were to emigrate peacefully of their own volition, which
no doubt would be followed by others." (Expulsion
Of The Palestinians, p. 167)

Ironically, what actually happened during the
1948 war was almost the complete opposite. The Palestinian Druze Arabs were
the ones who were permitted to stay (among other minorities as some Shi'ites
Muslims and Maronite Christians), especially in and around the Haifa
and al-Carmel area.

On July 8, 1947, Weizmann described how the average stateless Jew felt like to
UNSCOP (UN Special Committee On Palestine) as follows:

"We ask today: 'What are the Poles? What are the French? What are the
Swiss?' When that is asked, everyone points to a country, to certain
institution, to parliamentary institution, and the man in the street will know
exactly what it is. He has a passport.

If you ask what is a Jew is -- well, he is a man who has to offer a long
explanation for his existence, and any person who has to offer an explanation
as to what he is, is always suspect--- and from suspicion there is only one
step to hatred or contempt." (Israel:
A History, p. 147)

This explanation eloquently articulates how the average
dispossessed, ethnically cleansed, and occupied Palestinian feels.

Similarly, he continued to explain "Why Palestine?" should be the
only place where Jews should establish their political independence:

"Why not Kamchatka, Alaska, Mexico, or Texas? There are great many empty
countries. Why should the Jews choose a country which has a population
that does not want to receive them in a particular friendly way; a small
country; a country which has been neglected and derelict for centuries? [click
here for rebuttal to this myth] It seems unusual on the part of a
practical and shrewd people like the Jews to sink their effort, their sweat, and blood, their
substance, into the sands, rocks, and marches of Palestine.

Well, I could, if I wished to be facetious, say it was not our responsibility
-- not the responsibility of the Jews who sit here -- it was the
responsibility of Moses, who acted from divine inspiration. He might have
brought us to the United States, and instead of the Jordan might have had the Mississippi.
It would have been an easier task. But he chose to stop here. We are an ancient
people with old history, and you cannot deny your history and begin
fresh." (Israel:
A History, p. 147-148)

It is worth noting that Weizmann's argument is classic among Zionist
leaders to gain international support and sympathy for Israel and the Zionist
movement. Similarly, when Ben Gurion was interviewed by the British Peel
Commission in 1937, he
also used the Bible as a "Mandate" or a real estate deed for the "Jewish
people". (One
Palestine Complete, p. 401)

What baffles many Palestinians and Muslims is: Why the Bible
not used to "redeem" the "Promised Land" during the
Crusade's Genocide between the 11th-13th century?

Briefly, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has little
to do with religion, and a lot to do with Europe's racism towards its
Jewish citizens and Palestinian dispossession by the Israelis. On both sides of
the conflict, God is being used to distract and confuse the conflict to achieve
political gains. The conflict would have been at the same level of intensity
even if both warring parties had been Jewish, Christians, or even Muslims.

By war's end in 1949, Chaim Weizmann was surprised by a sudden "miracle":
Palestinians are almost out of "Eretz Yisrael", how did that happen?
As if the the Haganah,
the Irgun, and the Stern terror gangs were angels who played no role in this
sudden and swift so called "miracle". He described the EXODUS
of the Palestinian people from their homes, farms, and businesses as follows:

Note the racist use of the term "simplification" as if the
Palestinian people are question or a mathematical conjecture. Click
here if you wish to learn more how the "miraculous clearing" took
place based on declassified Israeli and Zionists archives. The question that is begged here is:

being a leader without friend or supporters is so hard, but being a good leader with too many friends and supporter is so easy... Chaim Weizmann is a hero! i mean that he is a good leader for the Israelis...because if not he will not be the HEAD OF A MILLION PRESIDENT "in ISRAEL". ---by the way i am Chaim Weizman Estaño Oliverio, 22 years of age and proud to say that i am a FILIPINO! jejeje etchos!

Sadly, he is being remembered for bloodshed instead of for what he was - a wonderful genius of a man who believed in something and made it a reality. He was a visionary, and a great man, and a brilliant scientist - he's revolutionised our world. Remember that, sheesh.

Chaim Weitzman never cared about the consequences the Jewish state would have upon the collective jewish people. The loss of tens of thousands jewish lives for the sake of his Zionist agenda was of absolutely no concern to him or to his zionist partners in crime. Hence, he does not merit the title of "Jewish Leader" or "Statesman".

To israel4ever and others of the like.
You said weizmann"help the Jewish people attain independence." What independence are you speaking about??? Israel is the most heavily subsidised country history of the world. Subsidised from other countries taxpayers money or natural resources(Iraq etc..) to the tune of over $30,000USD/per citizen. But guess what?... the money is drying up. Know whats gonna happen next? LOLOLOLOLOL.
Next you speak of "expulsion of palestinians" from their homeland as if thay are less human than you. Then you are upset because less than 8,000 Israelis have to give up gaza to 1.5 MILLION Palestinians. So about 1/2 a percent of the people want to rule the other 99.5 %. So who are the real "bastards" U r upset because you have to give back what you stole. LOLOLOLOLOL

Weizmann was one of the greatest man and leader in history. He's the one who worked so hard to help the Jewish people attain independence. This article forgot to mention all the riots and horrible killings that were occurring by the Arabs on the Jewish population in Israel during these years. I wish the expulsion of the Palestinians took place back then, it would have change the fate of Israel of being a victim of these murderers in the last 60 years. It is the job of a leader to make sure of the safety of his people. That's what he was trying to do: secure once and for all the Jewish people who had been the victims of insane haters throughout the history. Unfortunately,his plan of transferring the Arabs to Jordan didn't work out , and in the end we were the one who had to be exulted from our own land, businesses, homes and farms few years ago, to give the Gaza strip and the West Bank to these bastards.